All for Australia and the Empire.

All for Australia and the Empire.

Sharon Shinn's Samaria is a world populated by refugees from a ravaged Earth, also many, many years in the future.

We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world.

There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.

We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.

For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

I love Robin Wright. Kristin Wiig! I love those two women.

I like pop music. I also like the sound of a dying refrigerator. I can listen to that for an hour and a half if I'm in the mood.

There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.

I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never even blow my nose.

I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.

Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.

Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame.

When you feel great, you emanate a certain energy that translates as beautiful. I don't care if you have the standard beauty or not; it's that X-factor that comes through, and the basis of that is good health.

I always knew I belonged on the other side of the lens.

You can imagine how hard it is, but there's always a force that pushes me forward to do all I can!

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are headed.

Love thy neighbor, but don't pull down your hedge.

Unlike the Kennedy dynasty, who always knew how to pay off people who might make trouble, the Windsors can't bring themselves to part with any royal trinkets.

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.